A compact ultra-clean system for deploying radioactive sources inside the KamLAND detector

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 769, Issue , 2015, Pages 88-96

  Banks, T I ^a,b   Freedman, S J ^a,b,c   Wallig, J ^b   Ybarrolaza, N ^b   Gando, A ^d   Gando, Y ^d   Ikeda, H ^d   Inoue, K ^c,d   Kishimoto, Y ^c,d   Koga, M ^c,d   Mitsui, T ^d   Nakamura, K ^c,d   Shimizu, I ^d   Shirai, J ^d   Suzuki, A ^d   Takemoto, Y ^c,d   Tamae, K ^d   Ueshima, K ^d   Watanabe, H ^d   Xu, B D ^d   Yoshida, H ^d,e   Yoshida, S ^e   Kozlov, A ^c   Grant, C ^f,t   Keefer, G ^f,u   Piepke, A ^c,f   Bloxham, T ^b   Fujikawa, B K ^b,c   Han, K ^b   Ichimura, K ^a,c   Murayama, H ^a,b,c   O'Donnell, T ^a,b   Steiner, H M ^a,b   Winslow, L A ^a,b,v   Dwyer, D A ^b,g   McKeown, R D ^g,w   Zhang, C ^g,x   Berger, B E ^c,h   Lane, C E ⁱ   Maricic, J ^i,j   Miletic, T ^i,y   Batygov, M ^j,z   Learned, J G ^j   Matsuno, S ^j   Sakai, M ^j   Horton Smith, G A ^c,k   Downum, K E ^l,aa   Gratta, G ^l   Efremenko, Y ^c,m   Perevozchikov, O ^m,ab   Karwowski, H J ^n,o,p   Markoff, D M ^n,o,p   Tornow, W ^c,n,o,p   Heeger, K M ^c,q,ac   Detwiler, J A ^r   Enomoto, S ^c,r   Decowski, M P ^c,s   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

ⁱ DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^k KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

ⁿ TRIANGLE UNIVERSITIES NUCLEAR LABORATORY   (United States)

^o NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^t UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^u LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^w THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY   (United States)

^x BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^y ARCADIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^z CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^aa Milpitas High School   (United States)

^ab LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ac Yale University   (United States)

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Author keywords

Detector alignment and calibration methods (lasers, Sources, Particle beams); Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics; Scintillators, Scintillation and light emission processes (solid, Gas and liquid scintillators)

Indexed keywords

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS; CALIBRATION METHOD; CLEAN SYSTEMS; EMISSION PROCESS; RADIOACTIVE SOURCES;

EID: 84908519606     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2014.09.068     Document Type: Article

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